let’s get drunk and listen to quiet party
i’ve gone on the internet and i’m really annoyed
canceling all my meetings because i got jinxed
week 42; 2022
ok
- doing lots of research for next album, it is almost all i’m doing
- long_distance_telephone_(computer_music)
- stay tuned
- had some real anxiety days
- been reading about midi guitars
- went into the office and saw some people, got given a 16-inch laptop my work, it’s really big. it’s 2.1kg
- broke up with my girlfriend
- i don’t normally talk about work except for when i occasionally post “little think about bigglywinks” but i’m pretty excited about it right now. i don’t have any more to say about that.
- the first computer music might well have been made by alan turing on a computer called the manchester baby, or “the baby machine”. he played some pitches and rhythms. it was improved by chris strachey later who made it sing god save the king to the bbc.
- in school he “showed signs of brilliance” but “performed poorly”. he went to college and “neglected his studies” switched subjects a few times and then had a nervous breakdown after realizing he was gay
- see you later chicken
thinking about becoming an iconoclast
public domain search engines
- wordpress.org/openverse
- formerly search.creativecommons.org
- set license filter to
pdm(public domain mark) andcc0(creative commons 0 license)
- a custom google search engine for public domain works
- don’t know who built this (possibly appropedia?)
- mostly US government works
- Standard ebooks
- nice ebooks
- openimages.eu
- mostly old dutch newsreels??
- publicdomainreview
- a curated selection of works
“Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.”
Title 17 USC §105, Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works
interesting that the US federal government is incapable of holding copyright. is that true ✅ of other governments?
week 41; 2022
- worked
- wrote some code
- made music
- learnt some max
- went out for dinner with becky avery
- met some people at a bar and hung out with them for a while
- went out for a drink with lau
- noticed my computer was missing 100gb, couldn’t find it. it seemed to be lost between partitions
- reformatted. still setting it back up
- had a lot of anxiety yesterday and didn’t leave bed. same today.
- I really need a break